The cloud just means someone else's Linux box (or a VM running on one).

The only reason people use Chrome and Gmail are because they're free. Companies pay for their custom gmail domains, but they keep an eye on the exits in case they need to change email services.

If it isn't a browser (to view ads), an email service (to deliver ads), or an advertising service (to auction ads), Google has no interest in it past version 1.0 and the PR buzz that brings.

Frankly, I'm amazed they haven't stuck a fork in ChromeOS yet.

It has a lot to do with abortion. As more and more women lose that right, more and more rapists are now able to pick the mothers of their children and the women have no say in the matter.

OnStar can go fuck itself and GM can go down with it.

I thought the lawyers were the marketing department. "License everything we sell or we'll sue you into oblivion" is their opening pitch.

You'll owe your soul to the company store.

Nobody will be able to leave that Amazon company town ever again.

I know a family who gets Cox "up to 100Mbps" for $10 because they're on a free school lunch program. Their uplink is 3Mbps. They might get that speed when their neighbors are away at work. In the evenings, they can't even get 1Mbps when the kids would need that connection to do their homework. It's a cruel joke at best.

"... or similarly track Chinese nuclear submarines."

*cough* bullshit *cough*

Unless they're on the surface, you can't track cellphones in submarines. Radio waves don't penetrate beyond a few inches of water at best.

As if I needed yet another reason not to buy an Apple product.

You can buy the "potatoes" with Nightwave credits (which you earn doing in game tasks for those not familiar with Warframe). No need to spend any premium currency.

Isn't that what influencers do all day? Brag about the number of followers and then insist you give them products or services they promise to talk about?

The federal government could launch a social media platform for all citizens of the US to use. Being a part of the government and a public utility it would be subject to first amendment requirements.

Of course, that would mean a tax supported government program.

Your move, republicans.

So now China can just say we are purposely provoking them after one of their APTs adjusts the tool to trick the US into allowing actions that provoke them. Or they can just go low tech and overreact to everything.

If you need a computer to tell you if you're annoying someone, you've got a bigger problem to solve.

Rent a room somewhere and contract someone to stick a sign on it. Good luck getting any human being to man it. Nothing pays well enough to be the person Putin has arrested when the home office still tells Russia to f*ck right off.

When corporations are making demands of governments instead of the other way around it gets easier to see how much of an oligarchy we've become.